NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2024 / GROUP
OBJECT SPACE IN ŌTAUTAHI Sir Miles Warren Gallery
Christchurch / NEW ZEALAND
A collaboration between Objectspace and The National, Curated by Caroline Biling and Andrea Du Chatenier.
Drawing on our personal and cultural associations with the objects and architecture of daily life, the exhibition features work that considers how we design and adorn domestic spaces as an act of self-expression.
Living Room exists somewhere between show-home, lounge room and design-fair-display, and features new and recent works by Woo Lam (Sam) Choi (Walk in the Park), Michael Gilling (XYLO Woodcraft), Jacquelyn Fang Greenbank, Sam Kelly, Kirsty Lillico, Isabella Loudon, Ming Ranginui, Richard Stratton, Isobel Thom, Chris Weaver, and Daegan Wells.
SEPTEMBER2024 / SOLO
AUCKLAND / NEW ZEALAND
The show "Beyond Objects" will feature the maker's idiosyncratic development of various physical forms, surfaces and motifs, achieved through countless hours of labour and relentless trial and error. Each piece bears a unique personality stemming from the artist's personal memories infused into the work, establishing a connection that can resonate with anyone.
AUGUST 2023 / SOLO
ALLPRESS STUDIO
AUCKLAND / NEW ZEALAND
Creating a range of objects that exhibit tension between geometric pattern/forms & organic natural material and tell of contrasty harmony, organic refinement, soft sharpness and so on.
SEPTEMBER 2021 / GROUP
‘SUPERSTUDIO PIÙ’ CURATED BY GIULIO CAPPELLINI
MILAN, ITALIA
An out-of-the-ordinary exhibition demonstrating how fantasy can work endlessly on a single subject, and how beauty can take the most varied forms through different techniques and materials. 1000 VASES presents unique pieces made by hundreds of independent designers from 40 countries, in an extraordinary journey around the world united by the design of a small yet fundamental object.
JULY-AUGUST 2021 / GROUP
MASTERWORKS GALLERY
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
Lights have the capacity to transform a space but can also be a sculptural form in itself. Lighting can be both functional and also a ‘work of art’ in itself, self-illuminated.
JUNE- OCTOBER 2020 / GROUP
- Ā MUA : NEW LINEAGES OF MAKING
THE DOWSE ART MUSEUM
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
The exhibition explores the current nature of craft in New Zealand and looks to the future as we navigate the 21st century.
MAY 2019 / SOLO
- BEYOND THE HORIZON, NEW ZEALAND
PRECINCT 35 WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
‘Beyond The Horizon’ presents distinctive functional objects that are pushed beyond the stereotype of house object forms with elegant, geometric, playful and abstract forms.
AUGUST 2018 / SOLO
TUR & AN ASTUTE ASSEMBLY STUDIO AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND
‘Walk In The Park’ implies “happiness where we take slow movements while watching tiny creatures that we normally don’t see or forget about in our daily lives.” Using found and native timebr, Choi creates functional objects that enriches ones everyday living.
APRIL 2019 / GROUP
HUNTERS & COLLECTORS GALLERY
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
‘Beige’, a little tongue in cheek but partly as it nods towards its original use in French to described undyed woollen fabric. The show coming together as contradiction to our colloquial senses on the over produced and under relished.
JANUARY 2019 / GROUP
- BEAUTIFUL BIRDS FROM NEW ZEALAND
CROSSING GALLERY
GIFU, JAPAN
Like native New Zealand birds, this collection captures New Zealand’s refined, modest aesthetic approach that works in harmony with nature - a common thread between craft and design in Japan and New Zealand.